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Rail

A bar or series of bars fixed on upright supports or attached to a wall or ceiling, serving as part of a barrier or used to hang things on
A curtain rail
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Rod

A fishing rod.
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Rail

A steel bar or continuous line of bars laid on the ground as one of a pair forming a railway track
The goods train left the rails
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Rod

A piston rod.
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Rail

The edge of a surfboard or sailboard.
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Rod

An often expandable horizontal bar, especially of metal, used to suspend household items such as curtains or towels.
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Rail

A horizontal piece in the frame of a panelled door or sash window.
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Rod

A leveling rod.
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Rail

A conductor which is maintained at a fixed potential and to which other parts of a circuit are connected
The anode must be connected to the positive supply rail
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Rod

A lightning rod.
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Rail

A secretive bird with drab grey and brown plumage, typically having a long bill and found in dense waterside vegetation.
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Rod

A divining rod.
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Rail

Provide or enclose (a space or place) with a rail or rails
The altar is railed off from the nave
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Rod

A measuring stick.
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Rail

Convey (goods) by rail
Perishables were railed into Manhattan
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Rod

One of the horizontal elements in a truss system underneath a rail car, especially a freight car.
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Rail

(in windsurfing) sail the board on its edge
The more you pull down on the boom, the more you rail
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Rod

A shoot or stem cut from or growing as part of a woody plant.
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Rail

Complain or protest strongly and persistently about
He railed at human fickleness
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Rod

A stick or bundle of sticks or switches used to give punishment by whipping.
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Rail

A bar extending horizontally between supports, as in a fence.
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Rod

Punishment; correction.
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Rail

A structure made of such bars and supports and forming a barrier or guard; a railing.
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Rod

A scepter, staff, or wand symbolizing power or authority.
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Rail

A steel bar used, usually in pairs, as a track for railroad cars or other wheeled vehicles.
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Rod

Power or dominion, especially of a tyrannical nature
"under the rod of a cruel slavery" (John Henry Newman).
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Rail

(Sports) A grind rail.
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Rod

A linear measure equal to 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet (5.03 meters). Also called pole2.
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Rail

The railroad as a means of transportation
Goods transported by rail.
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Rod

The square of this measure, equal to 30.25 square yards or 272.25 square feet (25.30 square meters).
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Rail

A horizontal framing member in a door or in paneling.
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Rod

(Anatomy) Any of various rod-shaped cells in the retina that respond to dim light. Also called rod cell.
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Rail

Any of various marsh birds of the family Rallidae, found worldwide and characteristically having brownish plumage and short wings.
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Rod

(Microbiology) An elongated bacterium; a bacillus.
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Rail

To supply or enclose with rails or a rail.
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Rod

(Slang) A pistol or revolver.
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Rail

To express objections or criticisms in bitter, harsh, or abusive language.
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Rod

Vulgar Slang A penis, especially when erect.
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Rail

A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
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Rod

A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.
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Rail

The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
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Rod

A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
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Rail

A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
We travelled to the seaside by rail.
A small Scottish village not accessible by rail
Rail transport
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Rod

(fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
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Rail

(electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
ISA devices draw power from the +5
V, −5
V, +12
V, and −12
V rails of the power supply unit.
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Rod

A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
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Rail

A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
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Rod

An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.
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Rail

(surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
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Rod

A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.
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Rail

(internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
We're experimenting with ads in the right-hand rail.
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Rod

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, 4 chain, 2 yards, 2 feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
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Rail

(drugs) A large line portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug.
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Rod

An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 2 yards.
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Rail

Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
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Rod

(archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 4 square yards or 160 acre.
The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.
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Rail

(obsolete) An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
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Rod

A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.
The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.
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Rail

(obsolete) Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.
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Rod

(anatomy) A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.
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Rail

(intransitive) To travel by railway.
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Rod

(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.
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Rail

To place on a track.
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Rod

(chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 8 to 4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
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Rail

(transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
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Rod

(slang) A pistol; a gun.
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Rail

(transitive) To range in a line.
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Rod

A penis.
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Rail

To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
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Rod

(slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
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Rail

To complain violently (against, about).
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Rod

(ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
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Rail

To gush; to flow.
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Rod

(mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.
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Rail

An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.
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Rod

(rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
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Rail

A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc.
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Rod

(construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
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Rail

A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.
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Rod

(transitive) To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.
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Rail

A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.
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Rod

To penetrate sexually.
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Rail

The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks.
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Rod

(slang) To hot rod.
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Rail

A railroad as a means of transportation; as, to go by rail; a place not accesible by rail.
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Rod

A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
He that spareth his rod hateth his son.
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Rail

A railing.
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Rod

A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
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Rail

Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidæ, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.
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Rod

A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; - called also perch, and pole.
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Rail

To flow forth; to roll out; to course.
Streams of tears from her fair eyes forth railing.
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Rod

A linear measure of 16.5 feet
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Rail

To inclose with rails or a railing.
It ought to be fenced in and railed.
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Rod

A long thin implement made of metal or wood
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Rail

To range in a line.
They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart.
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Rod

Any rod-shaped bacterium
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Rail

To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; - followed by at or against, formerly by on.
And rail at arts he did not understand.
Lesbia forever on me rails.
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Rod

A square rod of land
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Rail

To rail at.
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Rod

Visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light
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Rail

To move or influence by railing.
Rail the seal from off my bond.
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Rod

A gangster's pistol
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Rail

A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
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Rail

Short for railway;
He traveled by rail
He was concerned with rail safety
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Rail

A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll
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Rail

A horizontal bar (usually of wood)
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Rail

Any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
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Rail

Complain bitterly
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Rail

Enclose with rails;
Rail in the old graves
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Rail

Provide with rails;
The yard was railed
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Rail

Separate with a railing;
Rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace
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Rail

Convey (goods etc.) by rails;
Fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium
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Rail

Travel by rail or train;
They railed from Rome to Venice
She trained to Hamburg
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Rail

Lay with rails;
Hundreds of miles were railed out here
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Rail

Fish with a hand-line over the rails of a boat;
They are railing for fresh fish
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Rail

Spread negative information about;
The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews
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Rail

Criticize severely;
He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare
She railed against the bad social policies
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